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26 January 2018

Sotheby’s

The portrait Cristoforo Segni, Maggiordomo to Pope Innocent X by Velázquez and Pietro Neri, from a private collection in Bologna, goes on sale at Sotheby’s next week, with an estimate price tag of $3 to 4 million. Segni was appointed to oversee the Pope’s palaces, and was an early contact of Velázquez’s when he arrived in Rome